Socialist Party of the Dominican Republic

The Socialist Party was a socialist political party in the Dominican Republic. The Socialist Party advocated an end to destructive foreign trade policies in favor of protectionism and the implementation of a planned economy, while it also supported secularism, multiculturalism, and the maintenance of a smaller army. The party gained the support of the lower classes towards the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th centuries, but it would never hold power in the government.